One approach to agent communication is to insist that agents not only send messages, but support them with reasons why those messages are appropriate. This is argumentation-based c...
Abstract. There are many domains in which a multi-agent system needs to maximize a "system utility" function which rates the performance of the entire system, while subje...
This paper examines the issue of developing semantics for agent communication languages. In particular, it considers the problem of giving a verifiable semantics for such language...
This article investigates the intensional programming paradigm for agent communication by introducing context as a first class object in the intensional programming language Lucid...
Abstract. This paper aims at defining the semantics of Agent Communication Languages (ACLs) in terms of changes in the social relationships between agents, represented in terms of...
Marco Colombetti, Nicoletta Fornara, Mario Verdicc...